{"id":166550,"date":"2023-06-27T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/these-headphones-make-it-possible-to-listen-to-music-while-swimming"},"modified":"2023-06-27T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:29:09","slug":"these-headphones-make-it-possible-to-listen-to-music-while-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/these-headphones-make-it-possible-to-listen-to-music-while-swimming","title":{"rendered":"These headphones make it possible to listen to music while swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-headphones-make-it-possible-to-listen-to-music-while-swimming2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making headphones that work underwater can be a trivial challenge. Not only do they need to be fully waterproof and easy to control, but they cannot rely solely on Bluetooth \u2014 because this wireless technology doesn\u2019t work reliably underwater. In fact, Bluetooth range underwater is reduced from as much as 240 meters (800 feet) to less than 8 cm (3 inches).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I love the power and versatility of my AirPods Pro. And I wear my Shocks OpenRun Pro bone conduction sports headphones when walking, hiking, and cycling because they don\u2019t cut me off from my surroundings. But there\u2019s been a gap in my headphone-wearing needs: swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Not anymore!<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/H2O-Audio-Underwater-Waterproof-Conduction\/dp\/B0BW4ZHPHW\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> H2O Audio Sonar Pro<\/a> underwater headphones, and I can\u2019t see myself bringing anything else to the next pool party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making headphones that work underwater can be a trivial challenge. Not only do they need to be fully waterproof and easy to control, but they cannot rely solely on Bluetooth \u2014 because this wireless technology doesn\u2019t work reliably underwater. In fact, Bluetooth range underwater is reduced from as much as 240 meters (800 feet) to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}